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News Articles: Art & Design

In her new book <em>Get the Picture, </em>journalist Bianca Bosker explores why connecting with art sometimes feels harder than it has to be. Above, a visitor takes in paintings at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2010.

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  • Author Interviews

How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

First of all, can we stop using the word "liminal"? Bianca Bosker spent five years doing in-depth research for Get the Picture — an irreverent book about "strategic snobbery" in the art world.

February 07, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
SCAD's Cristóbal Balenciaga exhibition: 'Master of Tailoring' features dresses worm by Elizabeth Taylor and Dolores del Rio. The exhibition at SCAD FASH in Atlanta runs through June 2, 2024.

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  • News

SCAD's Balenciaga exhibition asks: What is the future of archiving for fashion brands?

Long before the Balenciaga label made recent headlines with teddy bears togging harnesses and Kardashians in athletic wear sashaying beneath Hollywood palms, the brand's namesake set the pace for exquisite cuts and craftsmanship in austere Barcelona, Madrid and Paris studios.

January 30, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
The<em> Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project</em> exhibition features artwork by incarcerated artists critiquing the U.S. justice system and is on display at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C.

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  • Art & Design

A prison art show at Lincoln's Cottage critiques presidents' penal law past

Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project is on exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington. The work of incarcerated artists challenges U.S. presidents' records on mass incarceration.

January 27, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Singer and composer H. Sinno is bringing a site-specific opera to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur.

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  • Arts & Life

An ancient Egyptian temple in New York inspires a Lebanese American musician

H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.

January 27, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A cargo ship heads into port on Oct. 13, 2021, in Bayonne, N.J.

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  • Architecture

Shipping container buildings may be cool — but they're not always green

Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco-friendly? Many people don't want a heavily-used container — and the energy bills are through the roof.

January 15, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
Mark Rothko, <em>Untitled</em>, 1958, oil on watercolor paper mounted on hardboard.

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  • Fine Art

Paintings on paper reveal another side of Rothko

The National Gallery of Art is showing more than 100 of Mark Rothko's paintings on paper, many on view for the first time, in a new glimpse of the artist best known for huge paintings on canvas.

January 13, 2024
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  • Olivia Hampton
Rana Samara, a Palestinian artist from Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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  • Art & Design

Art and war: Israeli and Palestinian artists reflect on Oct. 7 and the crisis in Gaza

We asked six Israeli and Palestinian artists about how the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas has affected their lives and their work. They shared stories of fear, anger, sadness and pain.

January 07, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Furoshiki are a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth which used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods. Some are turning to them as a method of holiday wrapping.

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  • Arts & Life

For more eco-friendly holiday wrapping, some turn to the Japanese art of furoshiki

The practice dates back hundreds of years, when people started using cloth bundles to carry items to and from public baths. Eventually, it evolved into a wrapping art form.

December 22, 2023
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  • Megan Jamerson
Marco Zamora, a 27 year-old interior decorator/design DIY-er, and Juan "El Creativo" Renteria, a 26 year-old floral artist, initially met over Instagram. The floral floating tree in Zamora's apartment is their first collaboration together.

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  • Art & Design

Internet decor legends redefine the Christmas tree

Marco Zamora and Juan "El Creativo" Renteria, an LA-based creative pair, have created a spiral sculpture that gives the illusion of floating in the air.

December 22, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
This Frederick Douglass mural in Easton, Md., is a modern-day makeover that has some in the abolitionist's hometown divided.

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  • National

A Frederick Douglass mural in his hometown in Maryland draws some divisions

A mural depicting Frederick Douglass in a chunky wristwatch, a slim-cut suit and crisp white Converse has divided the town of Easton, Md., in his birth county of Talbot.

December 21, 2023
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  • Alana Wise
Comic strip Snoopy first started rocking a puffer jacket in the 1980s. A plush version of the bundled-up beagle is flying off the shelves in 2023.

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  • Pop Culture

Gen Z is suddenly obsessed with Snoopy — and not just because he's cute

Gen Z is feeling the love for Snoopy, who is flying off store shelves and going viral on TikTok. Here's why teens and twenty-somethings are newly obsessed (not that there has to be a reason).

December 18, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Head of Buddha from the seventh century

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  • Fine Art

Met museum is returning looted ancient art to Cambodia and Thailand

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been displaying artwork from the Khmer era that was associated with a man indicted in 2019 for the illegal trafficking of antiquities.

December 15, 2023
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  • Mandalit del Barco
<em>Dans la tour (In the Tower)/Self-Portrait of Leonor Fini with Constantin Jelenski</em>, 1952, oil on canvas

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  • Fine Art

'She was a pure creator.' The art world rediscovers Surrealist painter Leonor Fini

Although not as well known as contemporaries like Dalí and Ernst, Fini was part of every major Surrealist exhibition. And her personal life was almost as fantastic as her Surrealist art.

December 09, 2023
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  • Greg Allen
An influential color consultancy has already set the tone for the year ahead: Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024 is Peach Fuzz.

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  • Art & Design

Pantone's color of the year is 'Peach Fuzz'

The color consultancy says the "gentle" peach tone highlights our desire for closeness, compassion and well-being. The orange-pink hue is meant to bring comfort and beauty to a digital world.

December 07, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
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  • Arts & Life

A foundation has doubled their $250 million pledge to diversify monuments in the U.S.

An initiative from the Mellon Foundation dedicated to creating monuments that tell diverse stories recently pledged to double its funding for the project.

December 06, 2023
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